"He comes to my gym. He came to the [US] Olympic training centre and I actually had him removed one time," he said.

"I told the coaches, 'There's no need for him to be here.'

"[Ameen] has no credentials; he's not a member of any boxing organization," he said.

"There's no reason for him to be at ringside.

"Why he was ringside and why he was in the ring afterwards celebrating and so forth I have no idea."

A fair question. Ameen will have to answer it at a Jan. 18 IBF hearing during which Khan will appeal the decision. The IBF could order a rematch, as Schaefer claims the WBA has already done. To find out more, I called Daryl J. Peoples, the IBF president, who had this to say about Ameen:

Mr. Ameen does some outreach work for us. He identifies some fighters that might need assistance. He is non-compensated. ... I requested that the DC commission allow him a credential to get into the fight.

Hey, if you got credentialed and could sneak down to the turnbuckle to watch the fight, you probably would. If you could celebrate with the new champ afterward, you'd probably do that too. Maybe Ameen is just a fanboy and wannabe insider. Maybe he's doing "outreach." Or maybe he's really a shady man in a shady hat. This is boxing, after all.